I’m a huge sucker for awesome weather apps, so much that I’m afraid to even think about how much money I’ve put into these kinds of apps for my iThings.

Yahoo, as you know, supplies Apple with weather data for its stock iOS Weather app (in addition to Stocks and Siri data as well) and it was reported earlier this morning that the company will be launching a dedicated weather forecast software on the App Store.

You could imagine a weather buff like myself would be hanging on the edge of my seat in anticipation of Yahoo! Weather. Now that it’s just hit the App Store, I can honestly say that this is the best-designed iOS app from Yahoo yet.

The elegant typography combined with the big, beautiful full-screen images (crowd-sourced via Flickr), the crisp weather pictograms and just the right amount of information make this my new favorite weather forecast app. Jump past the fold for a bunch of screenshots, you know you want to..

Check out more screenshots below and dare tell me this isn’t one of the most elegant weather apps on the iPhone.

From release notes:

The forecast is beautiful. See the weather like never before – only Yahoo! Weather combines stunning photos with the most accurate forecasts.

In addition to an at-a-glance simplified overview of your weather forecast, the application won’t disappoint an armchair weather forecaster inside you as it also incorporates interactive radar, satellite, heat and wind maps and sunrise/sunset times.

Even these advanced features are carefully designed not to clutter the interface and intimidate users. What’s best, you can also submit your own photos to the app at Project Weather on Flickr.

Here, just a few more screenies, these via John Brownlee of Cult of Mac.

Partly Cloudy is great to get an idea of an entire day’s weather in detail pretty quickly at one glace, whilst Yahoo is great for real time weather stats that really go beyond temperature, rain and wind.

Damn, I love those two apps.
Never cared for weather apps, but those two really are awesome.

So, Yahoo supplies Apple with the data… they should of been supplying Apple with user interface too, wow! I’m extremely impressed.

Falk M.

I think one of the reasons the stock app still is so bland is because Apple don’t want to undermine the App Store developers, which I would love to happen though.

a) Raise the bar in terms of quality!
b) Get the iOS feel fixed. You can’t have a nice beautiful new GUI and don’t mind the apps.
c) The stupid idea to not display public transit info inline in Apple Maps is just stupid. Make Apple Maps hook into your installed apps’ program modules that call that data. Basically: Stop forcing me to double tap that homebutton and switch apps all the flipping time. Sheesh! We really need some more app interoperability and OS integration bad!

I agree with you 100%! I like what WeatherBug has done; I also have Haze and Weathercube downloaded as well just so I can have multiple sources to check. WeatherBug, in my opinion, is the most accurate. But in regards to interface, Yahoo has done an excellent job. If Apple truly is in talks with Yahoo for deeper integration in iOS, then that damn Weather App better get revamped UI and better functionality. I’m a commuter and take the train to go to school, so I know exactly where you’re coming from in regards to transit. I’ve downloaded the Metro North app for where I live and it works just fine, but having everything in one spot would be much easier. I have a feeling Apple will add this among other things to iOS 7. I feel iOS 7 is going to have some cool features, but more importantly, functionality needs to be addressed. Especially in regards to settings and multitasking. But that’s a discussion for a different post and a different day. Revamped Weather App! *Crosses fingers*

Falk M.

Much agreed!

I must admit that although they slacked a lot on the weather app, their widget for the notification center is damn awesome!
I can’t tell you how much more I check the weather now, even in dedicated apps, thanks to that.
Before I never bothered.

That widget… damn, love it. And before someone comes whining: I don’t claim Apple invented it, I don’t even claim they did it the best possible way(although the widget is pretty much excellent), but I like it’s there and that’s all that matters here.

Well widgets in the notification center are good use of the actual notification center. If they were to ever slap widgets on the lock screen or the home screen, I can’t say that I’d use them that much. I have widgets on my MacBook Pro, and I never really use them either. Maybe the calculator, twice. But I feel that they can do much more with the weather widget, though I’m not complaining. But I would say, c’mon Apple, go the extra mile!

This is pure aesthetics because the information within the radar feature couldn’t be more wrong. I’m looking at weatherbug radar and yahoo weather radar and not even close to the same. Yahoo radar is at least 3 hours behind and doesn’t even say when the last update was. I uninstalled it needless to say. I like the interface but I care more about the info on the screen than the way if looks.

Malay Mody

Its funny cause this app gets weather info from wunderground, not yahoo weather

YUCK! Keep this windows and android phone looking crap off my iPhone. Why would yahoo disgrace iOS with an app that looks just like windows style????? if anyone likes this, they should go buy an HTC android phone, lol. You can even see this on windows 8, sigh.